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Atsumare! Fushigi Kenkyu-bu 141-143 Touhou Sangetsusei ~ Eastern and Little Nature Deity 0-3

Girls' Last Tour 8/9 Episode 9 in particular never disappoints. Rock on, little jumpy fish.

I only managed 186 entries last year, which included copious amounts of manga and an actual book in one case. Can definitely do better than that. Girls' Last Tour 7

Sweet. I'm assuming DeMarco still doesn't like surprise schedule drops, so he must be annoyed about this. But we already had a good idea of the schedule before this, and now things are mapped even further out. [please be good, please be good...]

Birdie Wing -Golf Girls' Story- 20 [i saw you in the carpet shades]

So I wanted to finish the current arc of Memories of Phantasm before the end of the year, but then I realized that, for the second year in a row, I could cover a weird one-off Touhou fanime as little a treat. So here it is: 『Touhou Flash Animation』Highly Responsive to Prayers [keep on exterminatin' in 2024]

Himegoto 12/13 (end) 『Touhou Flash Animation』Highly Responsive to Prayers The Idolm@ster Million Live! 11 [count it]

@blueraven1979: Nice to see you back in here. I was worried when you suddenly stopped posting. The amount of posts you managed in here with your original account is remarkable. ...and this one's going in the review thread.

Shimeji Simulation 0-4 Bokura wa Mahou Shonen 9 [dude, i'm tripping on christmas!]

Birdie Wing -Golf Girls' Story- 16-19 Himegoto 10-11

Between Me and My Mind - 9/10 A.K.A. that documentary about Trey Anastasio, speak of the devil. I personally loved it and thought it was a thrillingly intimate portrait of him, on top of featuring various Phish tidbits I didn't know about (like his comment on how they structured their shows at Nectar's) and the makings of Ghosts of the Forest, one of many Phish-related things I still need to get into. If there's any nitpick I have with it, it's that it could've used a little more concert footage, maybe even from the shows to promote GotF. And having to rate this one feels unfair, because I doubt you're going to be interested in this if you're not a jam band fan. If you're even a little curious about the genre, check it out. [and yes, this is going in the content ratings thread]

I've been amassing vinyl too, although it's just Phish records so far. I've actually tried to play them on my father's old turntable, but... things haven't gone well. I've asked for an anti-static cleaning brush for Christmas, so hopefully I get it. Then I'll see if I can stop committing grievous crimes against the format.

I'm hoping to finally start a full chronological viewing soon. Last time I left off in Season 4, which... I guess no one could blame me. It's become a running gag that I keep asking for BDs of new seasons for Christmas, even though (unbeknownst to anyone else) I've been slacking on using them.

An omnibus too? Why not? Tanaka-kun is Always Listless Episode 7: "Tanaka-kun's Valentine" - TV-PGDL Episode 8: "Ohta-kun's Suffering" - TV-PG Episode 9: "Welcome to Wicky D's" - TV-PG Episode 10: "Tanaka-kun's Summer" - TV-PGDS Episode 11: "Tanaka-kun's Culture Festival" - TV-PG Episode 12: "Tanaka-kun's Happiness" - TV-PG Birdie Wing -Golf Girls' Story- Episode 14: "A Certain Truth Sleeping in the Girl's Memories" - TV-PGSV Episode 15: "The Reason Just Playing Golf Makes Me So Happy" - TV-PG Episode 16: "The Strange Fates of Two Generations of Young People Who Were Caught Up in the Ego of Adults" - TV-PGS [damn, these titles have sure gotten long] Episode 17: "The Girl Who Regained Her Lost Memories Returns Home and Learns a New Truth" - TV-PGD Himegoto Episodes 7-9: TV-14DS Touhou Fantasy Kaleidoscope: The Memories of Phantasm Episode 7: "Legend of the Giant Youkai" - TV-14S Episode 8: "The Eternal Night Incident" [part one] - TV-PGV Episode 9: "The Eternal Night Incident" [part two] - TV-14 Episode 10: "The Eternal Night Incident" [part three] - TV-PGV The Idolm@ster Million Live! Episode 5: "Our Incomplete Thank You!" - TV-G Episode 6: "The Dream Gets Rolling: Live Theater Project!" - TV-G Episode 7: "Shocking! Midsummer Sea Debut Battle!" - TV-PG Episode 8: "A Performance for Change" - TV-PG Episode 9: "The Other Baton" - TV-G Episode 10: "What an Idol Needs" - TV-PG I want to get one more omnibus in by the end of the year. Other procedural things: I won't be covering 16bit Sensation anytime soon, mostly because it ended up being a more cerebral and wide-ranging show than I was expecting, not to mention a surreal one; the next omnibus will be about finishing Himegoto and SpyFam S1, not that those will be big efforts; and I do have an upcoming simulcast in mind I want to do content ratings clips for. I'll announce it when it has a proper release date; thankfully, it doesn't seem to be coming in January.

Two weeks? Sounds good. Would be nice if I can keep this schedule, though weekly posts would be even better. Touhou Fantasy Kaleidoscope: The Memories of Phantasm Episodes 9 and 10: "The Eternal Night Incident" [part two and ending: part one] a.k.a. "The Night the Earth Stood Still"

I mean, if I were with Netflix, I would see this as a good thing. What they're cooking up with WIT is ostensibly a better product, and I doubt anyone is going to prefer the Toonami airing over it. Not to mention, what about Crunchyroll hosting the dubbed and subbed versions of OP? At some point does Toei cut ties with them also? Further looking at this from their perspective, they've always liked having linear TV airings of their shows in America. I wouldn't be surprised if they foist Dragon Ball Daima on somebody, although their apparent budding relationship with Netflix could subvert that this time.

I don't see it that way. What, are we thinking Toonami will lose out to a streaming service? At this point Netflix must be thinking "I got mine, you got yours". This could be a good thing, but I've also been wrong about things seedy corporations have done in the past, so...¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I can get that breaking up shonen seems awkward, but it makes sense that Toonami is slotting in all the seasonal shows followed by all the long-runners. And hey, LycoReco makes for a nice creamy center to the new stuff.

I want to go see this in theaters. "Worst Miyazaki movie" be damned, I don't know if I'll get the chance to see his latest flick again. Plus, I haven't seen any Ghibli films other than, and feel free to laugh at this, Grave of the Fireflies. Touhou Fantasy Kaleidoscope ~The Memories of Phantasm~ 10 The Idolm@ster Million Live! 9/10 ['til I reach the highest ground]

And there we go. Tune in to show support for your country, or rather, your cartoon block.

Touhou Fantasy Kaleidoscope: The Memories of Phantasm Episode 8: "The Eternal Night Incident" [part one] a.k.a. "The Night the Earth Stood Still"

Damn. And here I thought that was only present on Funi's DBZ releases. The Idolm@ster Million Live! 8

Touhou Fantasy Kaleidoscope ~The Memories of Phantasm~ 9 Akira (1988 dub) Sadly, the 4K Blu-ray didn't feel like much of a difference to me. But it was my first purchase from the new merged Crunchyroll store, and they delivered it about as well as I could've hoped for. Regardless, I'm keeping my 2013 BD set around for the bonus features.

Tanaka-kun is Always Listless 12 (end) The iDOLM@STER Million Live! 7 Touhou Fantasy Kaleidoscope ~The Memories of Phantasm~ 8 That ML episode was peak. Like, wow, it rivals anything I've seen from U149. Glad they pushed all this procedural work and generic drama aside in favor of letting the girls be themselves and do the typical idol shtick. It even had a minor reference to the 2011 show, which gets points in my book. And next week looks to be more of the same, plus Roco is involved. It may be after Thanksgiving, but we iM@S fans should be feasting right now. [marisa 3:16]

Happy Giving Tuesday. By contractual obligation, I have to give something to you, if only because I didn't over the Thanksgiving holiday. It's gonna be really good. Touhou Fantasy Kaleidoscope: The Memories of Phantasm Episode 7: "Legend of the Giant Youkai" a.k.a. "Daidarabocchi, King of the Monsters!" [stiiiiiill waiting... for another CG review]